Matt Mason
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Matt Mason is a young survivor and the son of resistance leader Tom Mason in the post-apocalyptic science fiction TV series "Falling Skies."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matt Mason canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1042012 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matt Mason Context triple: [Falling Skies, mainCharacter, Matt Mason]
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A.
Rick D. Husband
Rick D. Husband was a U.S. Air Force colonel and NASA astronaut who served as the commander of the Space Shuttle Columbia on its ill-fated STS-107 mission.
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B.
Fred Haise
Fred Haise is an American astronaut and test pilot best known as the lunar module pilot on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission.
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C.
Ernest A. Grunsfeld Jr.
Ernest A. Grunsfeld Jr. was an American architect best known for designing Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, one of the first modern planetariums in the United States.
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D.
Ronald McNair
Ronald McNair was an American physicist and NASA astronaut who flew on STS-41-B and was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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E.
Ken Mattingly
Ken Mattingly was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral best known for his roles in the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs, including serving as command module pilot on Apollo 16.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matt Mason Target entity description: Matt Mason is a young survivor and the son of resistance leader Tom Mason in the post-apocalyptic science fiction TV series "Falling Skies."
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A.
Rick D. Husband
Rick D. Husband was a U.S. Air Force colonel and NASA astronaut who served as the commander of the Space Shuttle Columbia on its ill-fated STS-107 mission.
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B.
Fred Haise
Fred Haise is an American astronaut and test pilot best known as the lunar module pilot on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission.
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C.
Ernest A. Grunsfeld Jr.
Ernest A. Grunsfeld Jr. was an American architect best known for designing Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, one of the first modern planetariums in the United States.
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D.
Ronald McNair
Ronald McNair was an American physicist and NASA astronaut who flew on STS-41-B and was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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E.
Ken Mattingly
Ken Mattingly was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy rear admiral best known for his roles in the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs, including serving as command module pilot on Apollo 16.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| affiliation |
2nd Massachusetts Militia Regiment
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human resistance ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Falling Skies ⓘ |
| basedIn | post-invasion Earth ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creator | Robert Rodat ⓘ |
| enemy |
Espheni
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Overlords ⓘ Skitters ⓘ |
| familyName | Mason ⓘ |
| father | Tom Mason ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Falling Skies universe
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linked to:
Falling Skies
|
| firstAppearance |
Falling Skies Season 1
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linked to:
Falling Skies
|
| genre |
post-apocalyptic fiction
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAgeAtStart | approximately 8 years old ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting protagonist ⓘ |
| network | TNT ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
grows up during alien occupation
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youngest son of Tom Mason ⓘ |
| occupation | survivor ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Maxim Knight ⓘ |
| relative |
Alexis Glass-Mason
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Anne Glass ⓘ |
| sibling |
Ben Mason
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Hal Mason ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Matt Mason Description of subject: Matt Mason is a young survivor and the son of resistance leader Tom Mason in the post-apocalyptic science fiction TV series "Falling Skies."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.